# Principal Software Engineer jobs in the USA

271 open Principal Software Engineer jobs in the USA right now, 82 of them posted in the last 30 days, at 111 companies. Numbers updated November 2026.

Updated 6 Nov 2026. From the job boards and company careers pages GoJob.now reads. Page: https://gojob.now/roles/principal-software-engineer/usa

## Key numbers

- Open jobs: 271
- Median posted pay: 287,000 USD a year
- Ads that show pay: 43%
- Remote: 24%

## Pay

Half of the 116 ads that posted pay offer between **227,000 USD** and **320,000 USD** a year (the middle of each posted range, as the ad states it: gross pay for employment, before VAT for B2B). The median is 287,000 USD.

43% of the open ads show pay at all. Ads without pay are counted in the totals, not in the range.

## How the jobs are set up

- Remote: 64, hybrid: 7, on site: 3, not stated: 197.
- Contracts the ads offer: employment contract in 1.
- 99% come straight from company careers pages, the rest from job boards.

## Companies hiring most

1. Roblox: 29 open
2. Cortex by Palo Alto Networks: 24 open
3. OPOWER: 17 open
4. SpaceX: 13 open
5. Snowflake: 12 open
6. Elastic: 11 open
7. Riot Games: 8 open
8. ServiceNow: 6 open
9. Snap Inc.: 5 open
10. Cisco: 5 open

## Skills the ads ask for

System design, Observability, Java, Python, Azure, GCP, CI/CD, Oracle, Machine learning, People management, AWS, C#

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## Principal Software Engineer jobs elsewhere

- [Poland](https://gojob.now/roles/principal-software-engineer/poland): 19 open
- [the UK](https://gojob.now/roles/principal-software-engineer/uk): 16 open
- [Los Angeles](https://gojob.now/roles/principal-software-engineer/los-angeles): 10 open
- [New York](https://gojob.now/roles/principal-software-engineer/new-york): 10 open

## Other roles in the USA

- [Software Engineer](https://gojob.now/roles/software-engineer/usa): 3,806 open
- [Manager](https://gojob.now/roles/manager/usa): 3,391 open
- [Director](https://gojob.now/roles/director/usa): 2,918 open
- [Delivery Driver](https://gojob.now/roles/delivery-driver/usa): 2,724 open
- [Assistant Manager](https://gojob.now/roles/assistant-manager/usa): 2,579 open
- [Customer Service Rep](https://gojob.now/roles/customer-service-rep/usa): 2,483 open
- [Account Executive](https://gojob.now/roles/account-executive/usa): 1,591 open
- [General Manager](https://gojob.now/roles/general-manager/usa): 1,590 open
- [Product Manager](https://gojob.now/roles/product-manager/usa): 1,239 open
- [Staff Software Engineer](https://gojob.now/roles/staff-software-engineer/usa): 1,141 open
- [Project Manager](https://gojob.now/roles/project-manager/usa): 886 open
- [Enterprise Account Executive](https://gojob.now/roles/enterprise-account-executive/usa): 689 open